Defender of the Nation
Defender of the Nation
COMMANDER OF THE ARMY Lieutenant General Sarath Fonseka flew to Vavuniya Thursday (10) morning to meet Wanni ground commanders in order to assess the security situation in the area.
THE LTTE HAS started to suppress Government servants living in uncleared areas forcing them to contribute Rs. 4,000 from their salary to the coffers of the LTTE, Military Spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara said yesterday (9) based on the information from civilians fleeing the uncleared areas.
VAVUNIYA & MANNAR: ARMED CLASHES occurred between 7.00 a.m. – 4.00 p.m. on Wednesday (09) in the general areas of PALAMODDAI, enabling the troops capture one more LTTE bunker with a stock of ammunition and hand grenades.
WELIOYA: TROOPS now on their way northward along the WELIOYA front directed heavy attacks on three Tiger bunkers in the north of KIRIIBBANWEWA Wednesday (9).
MANNAR: AS LTTE’S hostile attitude towards innocent civilians in un-cleared areas is fast turning worse with intensification of their offensives against Security Forces, more and more civilians in order to seek refuge in cleared areas have begun vacating those areas, the latest being a group of thirty-two civilians.
THREE HARDCORE TIGER CADRES, fully frustrated with LTTE’s inhuman cycle of violence and ill-treatment have sought refuge under the Security Forces in newly-captured Palamoddai in Vavuniya after giving up the terrorist organization.
RECENT LOSSES HAVE resulted in the LTTE openly appealing to the government of Tamil Nadu for help in their war. Despite the popularity of the LTTE cause in Tamil Nadu, the LTTE terror tactics have backfired. The Tamil Nadu Government has turned on the LTTE over the last decade, and this LTTE appeal will fail, the respected military website Strategy Page said.
KALMUNAI: A PISTOL carrying terrorist, yet to be identified, shot dead three mattress vendors along TUWAI Rd, KALMUNAI around 9.00 Thursday (10) morning.